I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
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In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
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History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
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Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
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I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
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-- Henny Youngman I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
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scumbags dev If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
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-- Russell Baker To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
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Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
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not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
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-- George Santayana The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
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what he was afraid he couldn't do.
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